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Snippy! Snappy! Screen Captures

March 9, 2009

When you’re testing a product, you often may want to highlight a particular bug or issue with a quick screenshot. Of course, 90% of the time, you just need to show a small part of the screen. Snippy is a handy tool to grab part of a screen in Windows XP. Just click on the icon in your systray and circle the area on the screen. The image will be saved to the clipboard where you can drop it into an email or document. It’s free, it’s simple, and you don’t even need to install it so it keeps the test system relatively clean.

You can also grab a copy of Cropper which provides a nicer user-interface to allow you to grab sections of your screen, saves the area in many different formats, and works in Windows Vista. If you’re running Windows Vista, you can also use the built-in Snipping Tool. All three offer more features/capabilities than PrintScreen…